HYDBILLODES. 55 



SECT, II. Palpi of male with the 3rd joint short and triangular, 

 buried in thick hair at the end of the 2nd joint, a very long 

 tuft of hair from the inner side of the 2nd joint, extending 

 backwards over the head ; antennas strongly ciliated ; fore 

 tibiae enclosed in a cap-like covering, containing a mass*of 

 flocculent hair. 



A. Fore wing with no tuft of hair on underside of costa. 



2851. Hydrillodes gravatalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 175; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 177, fig. 12 ; C. $ 8. no. 2971. 

 Bocana erythusalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 177 ; C. 8f S. no. 2970 A. 

 Echana tennenti, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 120, fig. ]. 



Fuscous black. Fore wing with the subbasal and antemedial 

 lines almost obsolete ; a black lunule at end of cell, with a large 

 whitish patch beyond it crossed by the waved postmedial line ; an 

 indistinct pale waved submarginal line. Hind wing pale, especially 

 at base, and with an indistinct cell-spot. Underside with cell- 

 spot and pale waved medial and submarginal lines, only developed 

 on fore wing towards costa. 



Hal. Punjab ; Sikhim ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Andamans ; Borneo. 

 Exp. 28 miliim. 



B. Fore wing with a very large tuft from middle of costa on 

 underside reaching across the cell. 



2852. Hydrillodes nilgirialis, n. sp. 



c5 . Exactly similar to typical lentalis except for the structural 

 characters. 



Hob. Nilgiris (Hampson). Exp. 28 miliim. Type in B. M. 



SECT. III. (Echana}. Palpi of male with the 2nd joint dilated at 

 extremity, the 3rd joint recurved over head. Fore wing 

 with a large costal vesicular fold on upperside containing a 

 mass of flocculent scales. 



2853. Hydrillodes abavalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 196 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 177, fig. 10; C. 8fS. no. 2965. 



Echana plicalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 

 1867, p. 86, pi. 7, fig. 7 ; C. $ S. 

 no. 2966. 



c? . Uniform dark fuscous 

 brown ; fore wing with indistinct 

 submarginal series of white specks 

 ^_ and marginal series of dark specks. 



Fi 27 The form plicalis from Sikhira 



Hydrillodesabavalis, rf. |. is much larger than typical aba- 

 valis. 



Hob. Sikhim ; W. and S. India ; Ceylon ; Borneo. Exp. 22-32 

 miliim. 



